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/klˈɛməntˌaɪn/ /klˈɛməntˌin/ Listen

Clementine

noun

A variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa. Synonym: clementine tree.

A mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds.

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"Clementine" Quotes from Famous Books

... wretched sketchbook, and though she did not and does not draw well, she did show me how to spread an even tint, which I never knew before. I was working up my French. She knew about as much and as little as I did, and we read Mad. Reybaud's Clementine together, guessing at the hard words, because we had ...

— If, Yes and Perhaps - Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact • Edward Everett Hale

... Captain Low. She was bound to Manilla, from across the Pacific, and George did seaman's duty in her until her arrival in Manilla, when he left her, and shipped in a brig bound to the Sandwich Islands. From Oahu, he came, in the British brig Clementine, to Monterey, as second officer, where, having some difficulty with the captain, he left her, and coming down the coast, joined us at San Pedro. Nearly six months after this, among some papers we received by an arrival from Boston, we found a letter from Captain Low, ...

— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

Words linked to "Clementine" : Citrus reticulata, clementine tree, mandarin, mandarin orange tree, mandarin orange